| Answer | % Correct | ||
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| Films | Green ogre must rescue a princess to get his land back | Shrek | 83%
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| Events | The Pentagon | 83%
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| Events | Nearly 3,000 people are murdered in terrorist attacks on these buildings | World Trade Center | 83%
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| Films | Sequel to the 1999 film about a virginity-losing pact, Stifler et al. attempt to have the greatest summer party ever | American Pie 2 | 67%
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| Events | Calcutta changes its spelling to this | Kolkata | 67%
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| Films | The first in a long-running series of crime action films starring the late Paul Walker | The Fast and the Furious | 67%
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| Deaths | NASCAR driver; the fourth to die in a nine-month period | Dale Earnhardt | 50%
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| Deaths | The second Beatle | George Harrison | 50%
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| Films | First Harry Potter film | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 50%
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| Films | In Middle-earth, Dark Lord Sauron seeks the One Ring | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 50%
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| Deaths | Joseph Barbera's fellow animator | William Hanna | 50%
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| Films | Woman hopelessly seeks love within a year and keeps a journal about it | Bridget Jones' Diary | 33%
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| Films | Tom Green's critically-panned "masterpiece." A slacker wants to be a professional cartoonist and falsely accuses his father of abusing his brother | Freddy Got Fingered | 33%
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| Deaths | Lead singer of the Ramones | Joey Ramone | 33%
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| Films | Based on the popular 1970 cartoon, a girl group realise their songs are disseminating subliminal messages | Josie and the Pussycats | 33%
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| Films | Based on the best-selling 1996 video game, our heroine tries to obtain ancient artifacts from the Illuminati | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | 33%
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| Films | Sorority girl tries to win her boyfriend back by getting a doctorate in law | Legally Blonde | 33%
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| Films | Human child enters top-secret "scaring" facility and must be returned home | Monsters, Inc. | 33%
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| Events | This pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing system is shut down | Napster | 33%
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| Films | Two friends plan to steal $150 million from a casino owner (the original, from 1960, starred the Rat Pack) | Ocean's Eleven | 33%
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| Films | Tora! Tora! Tora!, only (A) directed by Michael Bay, (B) inferior, and (C) historically inaccurate | Pearl Harbor | 33%
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| Deaths | R&B singer (Age Ain't Nothing but a Number); a certain Robert Kelly illegally married her | Aaliyah | 17%
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| Films | Oscar winner, based on the life of Nobel Laureate John Nash | A Beautiful Mind | 17%
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| Events | This powerful media conglomerate is formed. (Clue: Dial-up + Zeit + Shield) | AOL Time Warner | 17%
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| Events | The NEAR Shoemaker probe lands on Eros. What is Eros? | Asteroid | 17%
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| Deaths | Commentator for CNN and Fox News; her husband Ted was the US Solicitor-General | Barbara Olson | 17%
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| Films | During the Somali Civil War, the US military launches a raid to capture a militia leader | Black Hawk Down | 17%
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| Deaths | Arguably the greatest batsman ever | Don Bradman | 17%
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| Deaths | Wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 17%
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| Films | Also based on a video game, the characters are very realistic CGI | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | 17%
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| Events | This disease starts to devastate the British countryside | Foot-and-mouth disease | 17%
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| Deaths | One member of the Mamas and the Papas | John Phillips | 17%
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| Deaths | Actor and husband of Judi Dench | Michael Williams | 17%
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| Events | This Russian space station is destroyed after 15 years | Mir | 17%
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| Films | Set in 1900, a young poet and writer falls for a cabaret actress | Moulin Rouge! | 17%
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| Events | This country's royal family is almost completely wiped out in a massacre | Nepal | 17%
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| Films | Astronaut crash-lands on Ashlar, an exoplanet dominated by Pan troglodytes | Planet of the Apes | 17%
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| Events | At the same time, United Airlines Flight 93 is crashed in this Pennsylvania village | Shanksville | 17%
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| Films | Sequel to the 1999 film about an evil preserved human | The Mummy Returns | 17%
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| Deaths | Destroyed a federal government building in 1995 | Timothy McVeigh | 17%
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| Films | Narcissistic model is brainwashed into an assassination attempt | Zoolander | 17%
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| Deaths | Queen of Nepal | Aishwarya | 0%
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| Deaths | Guns of Navarone actor | Anthony Quinn | 0%
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| Deaths | Photographer and widow of Anthony Perkins | Berry Berenson | 0%
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| Deaths | King of Nepal | Birendra | 0%
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| Deaths | Creator of the Nashville sound; played guitar on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel | Chet Atkins | 0%
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| Deaths | Performed the first heart transplant (1967) | Christiaan Barnard | 0%
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| Deaths | Co-creator and producer of Frasier; died in attacks mentioned above | David Angell | 0%
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| Deaths | The King's brother | Dhirendra | 0%
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| Deaths | Elder son of the above (later King); perpetrator of the attack | Dipendra | 0%
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| Films | Mariah Carey's reviled vanity project (she blamed the attacks on its failure) | Glitter | 0%
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| Events | Ten people die in a train crash in this Yorkshire village near Selby | Great Heck | 0%
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| Deaths | Queen Elizabeth II's racing manager (his death was the same day as, but completely unrelated to, the attacks) | Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon | 0%
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| Deaths | Diminutive radio personality who worked with Howard Stern | Henry Nasiff Jr. | 0%
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| Deaths | Best Supporting Actor, 1955 (Mister Roberts) | Jack Lemmon | 0%
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| Deaths | The King's first cousin | Jayanti | 0%
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| Films | A schoolboy with an exceptional IQ must save all of Earth's parents from egg-like aliens | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | 0%
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| Films | "White trash" man's redeeming qualities become more apparent as he searches for his parents | Joe Dirt | 0%
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| Deaths | Delta blues guitarist | John Lee Hooker | 0%
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| Deaths | Producer/adviser for John Peel; previously trumpeter for the Alan Price Set | John Walters | 0%
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| Deaths | Husband of the above | Kumar Khadga | 0%
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| Deaths | President of the DRC; murdered by his own bodyguard | Laurent-Désiré Kabila | 0%
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| Deaths | Moral campaigner who wanted to clean up TV | Mary Whitehouse | 0%
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| Deaths | Ms. Balbricker in Porky's | Nancy Parsons | 0%
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| Deaths | Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister | Nigel Hawthorne | 0%
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| Deaths | Younger brother of the above | Nirajan | 0%
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| Deaths | Magic Moments singer | Perry Como | 0%
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| Deaths | New Zealand yachtsman murdered by Brazilian pirates | Peter Blake | 0%
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| Deaths | The King's eldest sister | Shanti | 0%
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| Deaths | The King's middle sister | Sharada | 0%
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| Deaths | Sister of the above | Shruti | 0%
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| Films | Shy teenager learns that she is heir to a European throne | The Princess Diaries | 0%
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| Deaths | The original Yellow Power Ranger | Thuy Trang | 0%
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| Deaths | Co-inventor of the first stored-program computer | Tom Kilburn | 0%
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| Deaths | A Summer Place actor | Troy Donahue | 0%
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